10 Rev. H. S. Gorham's materials for a 



absence of diaphanous segments, and small, feebly-deve- 

 loped eyes. 



Alyclinus x author rlinphus, Kirscb. 1. c. p. 72. 

 Columbia, Brus. M., Guerin, Men. Gorh. (Norris), 



Probably in most collections. 



Pleotomus, Leconte, Classif. Col. N. Am. I. 

 p. 184, 1861. 



The elytra here are rudimentary in the 2 , and feebly 

 developed in the $ , which is, however, quite capable of 

 flight. The eyes are Avell developed, especially in the 

 male. Abdomen sublobed in the (5, pygidium rounded, 

 faintly bisinuate in $ , round in 2, ventral, apical emargi- 

 nate scarcely notched in the same sex. 



Pleotomus fallens, Lee. New Spec. Col. I. p. 88. 

 Texas, U. S. America, Gorh. 



PhvENOLIS, genus novum. 



Maxillary palpi. 



Eyes small. Head entirely received into the prothorax. 

 Antennas 11-jointed; joint 1 stout, 2 short, 3 — 10 bifla- 

 bellate, as in Lamprocera Latreillei. Prothorax contracted 

 at the base, its margins broadly reflexed. Scutellum elon- 

 gate. Elytra not expanded, their lateral margin a little 

 reflexed. Abdomen having the dorsal segments lobed at 

 the sides ; segments foiu", five and six laciniate, the seventh 

 widely bilobed; the anal, or corresponding ventral segment, 

 being divided and produced in two recurved, spathulate 

 lobes, at the base of which is a luminous spot. 



Type, PhcBnolis laciniatus, Gorh. 



Pltcenolis laciniatus, n. sp. 



Elongatus, subparallelus, ochraceus, capite antennis, 

 palpis, abdomine, tibiis, tarsis, elytrorumque apice late 

 fusco-nigris. 



Long. lin. 6—7. ^, 2 ?. 



Head black, antennae Avith the lamellas equal on each 

 side, long ; breast ochreous-yellow, extreme tip of femora 

 dusky, tibifB and tarsis black, excepting the claws, which 



